Pocket parkrun #45: The Riverside Runners Takeover Run Report

Josh Brunning · 09:00 Saturday, 13 April 2019

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I will start this week by thanking all our fantastic volunteers: Alan Turnbull, Alice Tellett, Alison Wright, Allison Farrer, Amie Gough, Becki Barnett, Caroline Brooks, Chris Butterworth, Chris Windebank, Colm Crowley, David Sellick, Di Leckie, Diane Hufford, Elizabeth Cowell, Gareth Thomas, Hayley Williams, James Edward Gamble, James Shiner, Jeremy Hill, Jo Oregan, Joana Cerveira, , Joanne Kirkham, John Willcook, Karen Childerley, Karen Roper, Katy Davies, Kevin Haddow, Laura Kemp, Laura Steed, Lee Radley, Mark Forster, Matthew Cottrell, Max Carrington, Maya Williams, Michaela Ridley, Paul Newell, Paul Ridley, Phil Bond, Phil Redden, Rodrigo Santos, Samuel Kirkham, Sarah Tully, Selcan Rowles, Sharon Evans, Steven Barnett, Tara Berry, Tina Codling, Tony Hainsby, Trevor Hufford, William Sleigh and Joanne Carrington, this week’s run director.

Riverside Runners This week Pocket parkrun was taken over by Riverside Runners who provided loads of volunteers and pacers. Saturday was a record breaking parkrunDay for us here at Pocket parkrun. We had a new record number of volunteers: 52! There was also a record number of people parkrunning*: 275! This week’s first finisher was first finisher Tom Hemingway in a time of 17:36 and the female first finsiher was Hayley READ in a new PB of 19:29 who also acheived the highest age grade with 81.52% New Club Members

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Thank you to everyone who ran, jogged walked, cheered or volunteered this week. If you’d like to join list of volunteers for this weekend (or any weekend) you can visit www.parkrun.org.uk/pocket/volunteer/ to find out more. You could also go to the future roster to see what positions are available or get in touch by emailing pockethelpers@parkrun.com to see what you can do.

Untill next week,

#DFYBC (9 of you did this week!)

Josh

*Except for the New Years Day parkrun - which I don’t think really count.

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